Dividing Fractions: Word Problems

A baker is making cookies. He has 18 pounds of dough. Each cookie is made from 1/8 pounds of dough. How many cookies can he make?

• 122

• 144

• 166

• 188

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CCSS.5.NF.B.7B

CCSS.5.NF.B.7C

The kitchen assistant is helping the chef to serve soup. The chef made 3 pots of soup and the assistant is putting 1/16 cups of cream on top of the soup in each bowl.  There are 12 cups of cream. How many bowls of soup can the assistant help prepare?

• 175

• 192

• 193

• 200

Each batch of cupcake mix requires 1/3 of a cup of milk. According to the recipe, the batch can make 12 small cupcakes or 8 large cupcakes. If Emma makes a batch of large cupcakes, how much milk is used for each cupcake?

• 1/5

• 1/12

• 1/24

• 1/48

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CCSS.7.RP.A.1

1/8 gram of copper and 1/3 gram of silicone is used to manufacture 30 headphones. How much silicone is used in each pair of headphones?

• 1/60

• 1/70

• 1/80

• 1/90

Tags

CCSS.7.RP.A.1

To make sure the machines in the factory run smoothly, the mechanics need to add 1/5 liter of oil to the machine every Monday. One Monday, a mechanic can only find 12 liters of oil in the storage. Is there enough oil for 65 machines? 

• 50

• 60

• 70

• 80

Tags

CCSS.7.EE.B.3

Usually, 1/1000 of the headphones cannot pass the tests. If they found 5 headphones failing, how many headphones did the workers test?

• 2000

• 3000

• 4000

• 5000

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CCSS.6.RP.A.3B

After the headphones are tested, each pair of headphones are packed in a small box. Each small box is ¼ cubic foot. How many boxes of headphones can fit into a truck with a cargo compartment of 60 cubic feet?

• 230

• 240

• 250

• 260

Tags

CCSS.5.NF.B.7B

CCSS.5.NF.B.7C